To those who JB for additional software features / banned apps: why are you supporting a company who wants to restrict these types of applications? Companies move to where the money is, and the more money they can make, the better. Now because of people like you, the Motorola DroidX is equipped with an eFuse where a custom OS cannot loaded. That said, it still doesn’t restrict you from loading any application you want, on any market.

Lets say you buy a car. You drive it around, you like it but the fact that it doesn’t have an aux port drives you nuts. But you bought the car, you’re free to do whatever you want with it. You can install one. Yay music!

Now lets say your car is produced by Apple. You will have to find a radio station you like instead.

Basically… it’s your phone you’re free to install whatever you want on it.

If you BUY an iPhone… you own the the thing… so if you want to jailbreak it who the fuck is apple to stop you..

Its like buying a car and being told that you not allowed to change the wheels or the radio… cant wait for 4.1 to come out so that I can totally ignore it and jailbreak my phone again..

screw apple and steve jobbie

I still don’t see why carrier unlocks aren’t allowed. If you get your iPhone through subsidy from a carrier, it means you entered a contract, for which you will still be charged even if you don’t use it. So why would anyone pay for two carriers at once and only use one?

Personally, the PDF patch is annoying, as it means I won’t be able to jailbreak my iPad when it gets delivered, but Apple arent going to want all of their iDevices in their retail stores being jailbroken, as it means that they wont function as most users expect. Jailbreakers (me included) run their iDevices with a level of technical understanding, enough to know what is going on. Most people that pick up an iPhone in one of Apple’s retail stores don’t understand the extra features, and cry foul of Apple, who should be seen to be providing the best service they can.

Funny enough, I don’t see why Apple doesn’t offer an unlocking service. They could easily run it through iTunes, and they could run a check to see if your contract has ended. If Apple offered people an unlock, even charging for it, there would be less people going through the effort of jailbreaking just for the unlock.

we can go on and on abt the advantages of jailbreaking, like multitasking on the 2g…..

The author is either completely ignorant here, or he’s being purposely misleading. I’m a big fan of jailbreaking, but the PDF exploit (which is being used wonderfully by jailbreakme) is a massive security hole, exploitable by anyone for any purpose. To try to claim that this was some specific attack on jailbreaking is simply absurd.

If it was really about the security issue, Apple would have done the same. That’s not to say Apple doesn’t deserve credit for trying to fix the problem, they just did it in the most controlling way possible.

I cannot think of a single reason (other than piracy) why jailbreaking should be fought against. Ok, so maybe Apple needs to distance itself from the “shadier” areas jailbreaks allow users to venture into, but that doesn’t mean they should constantly be worried about the jailbreaks.

Besides, Jailbreakers were one step ahead of Apple since the beginning; the first game I played on my iTouch was a Pool game, from Installer.app, Summerboard and Winterboard actually made my device MINE with themes, and so many other additions that make the iDevices so much more.

And the PDF exploit? I bet Apple patched that up quickly due to embarrassment lol Previously discovered exploits took awhile to surface, thanks to Apple’s patches, and then the Dev’s find a hole that jailbreaks via PDF, without a whole firmware re-install. Yeah, bet Apple wasn’t impressed with that XD